Harvard graduate & blogger outed

This is interesting -- the author of "Underneath Their Robes," a gossipy blog about the judiciary, has been outed as a Harvard College grad who is working as a federal prosecutor in Newark, reports the New York Times.

The blog, which was described as "a dishy hybrid of People magazine and The Harvard Law Review," was supposedly written by an anonymous female observer/admirer who called herself "Article III Groupie". But The New Yorker magazine found that the blogger is actually David Lat, a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School, says the Times.

I think anonymity is a great thing for some bloggers, but in this case it was not only awkward (now that the secret is out, as was bound to happen) but potentially damaging to cases Lat worked on, if some of his alter ego comments were found to have created a conflict of interest or misconduct with judges he talked about.

"Underneath Their Robes," incidentally, has been taken down since the expose.